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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should

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  • deeply sane

    I hope somebody describes me like this one day.

  • Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon

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  • Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.”

    What?? How is it prioritizing safety if it did exactly the opposite and created an unsafe environment (a bunch of US cops with guns pointed at teens)?

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Sure, but there's Linux features that use TPM too, although you probably don't need them in a home environment.

  • The AWS outage hit us during the day in Australia. I didn't notice because I run my own server, btw

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  • It was a feature built in to the web browser, providing a website, file sharing, a music player, a photo sharing tool, chat, a whiteboard, a guestbook, and some other features.

    All you needed to do was open the browser and forward a port, or let UPnP do it (since everyone still had UPnP enabled back then), and you'd get a .operaunite.com subdomain that anyone could access, which would hit the web server built into the browser.

    This was back in 2008ish, when Opera was still good (before it was converted to be Chromium-powered). A lot of people still used independent blogs back then, rather than everything being on social media, so maybe it was ahead of its time a bit.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Depends on if you use any security features that require a TPM. If not, the older chips are fine, or some motherboards allow a separate TPM chip to be added.

    For example, my employer requires TPM 2.0 for both Windows and Linux systems, since they store most encryption keys and certificates on it - including WPA2-Enterprise key for wifi, 802.1x key for wired Ethernet, SSH keys (in some cases), LUKS key for full-disk encryption on Linux, Bitlocker key on Windows, etc.

    For home use, if you don't use any of those features (or require strong encryption for them), the main thing you'll miss out on is support for Windows 11, which is fine if you're using Linux.

  • The AWS outage hit us during the day in Australia. I didn't notice because I run my own server, btw

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  • I'm sad that Opera Unite failed. It was the closest thing to self-hosting for regular non-technical people.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • it lacks the magical TPM chip that Win11 demands.

    How old is it? TPM 2.0 has been standard equipment for nearly ten years now. It's disabled by default on some systems.

    Intel Core 8th gen and above, and Ryzen 2000 series and above, should all have TPM 2.0 built into the CPU (fTPM)

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • I haven’t seen any bloat on it, no ads in winkey menu

    If you're in the EU, that's probably why. I think the bloat is only for non-EU users.

  • Should we dress as something scary?

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  • I need more content like this in my life.

  • Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS

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  • I can't even get push notifications working.

    Which browser? Safari is notorious for having a lot of bugs around push notifications, but Chrome and Firefox should both work.

  • Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS

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  • I don't have any knowledge about this in particular, but as someone with experience working at big tech companies, you're missing the most likely reason:

    1. Everyone who worked on it was reorged to higher priority teams, and nobody is left to maintain the apps

    A lot of teams are only 3-6 developers, an engineering manager, a project manager, and a designer. Other roles like content design and QA are often shared across lots of teams. Developers with experience building native apps might be needed on other projects.

  • Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS

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  • And they harm platform consistency, etc.

    Unfortunately, a lot of major apps aren't consistent any more. Each app uses its own design language and its own UI widgets, rather than using proper native ones. Often they're no better than web apps. I hate it and would rather just use a web app instead.

  • Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS

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  • IIRC the WhatsApp app is a native Windows app using C++ and XAML, while the Messenger app is a React Native app.

  • Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS

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  • You can still use the web version.

  • Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS

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  • WhatsApp and Messenger are the #1 and #3 most used messaging apps in the world. (#2 is WeChat)

    In Australia where I'm from, Messenger is the most popular by far.

  • Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS

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  • You can still use the website. This is just talking about the native apps.

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    8 men own same wealth as half the world

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  • Most of that wealth is in properties, assets, stocks, etc

    All of those can be sold in exchange for currency.

  • Deleting Files

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  • I like Notepad++. It can handle anything you throw at it.

    I switched to Linux (Fedora with KDE) and I like KWrite for similar reasons.

  • Deleting Files

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  • The current UI is very different to the original UI though.